The state chronicle., 1887-05-05

turning their attention to the outside
world. There are some other things,
besides charity, that ought to begin at
home.
We see from the Asheville Citizen that
the good old custom of rendering an ac-
count Of his stewardship by member of
the Legislature to his constituents still
prevails in some parts of the mountain
country. At jackson court Senator kope
Elias rendered an account of his service
in the Senate ''clear, strong, intelligent
and satisfactory - Mr.. Elias had the
cordial plaudits Of a very full house, and
greatly strengthened his hold upon the
confidence and good will of the people"
This old custom has been driven back by
the printing press. 1t was a better way
in some respects for the people to hear of
the acts Of the Legislature than reading,
aud we are glad that it is still observed IN
parts of the State.
Durham journalism is like Durham
bright, stirring and enterprising. 4 few
double sheet, which attested the growing
prosperity Of that paper. The last issue
of the Plant is full of illustrations of Meth
odism in Durham. 1t contained excellent
pictures of the three Methodist churches
Trinity, Main Street, and Carr's, and pic
lures Of the following distinguished Meth
odst clergymen: Bishop Galloway, Rev
DR.. Black, Rev. John II. Hall, Rev. W. 5.
Greasy and Rev. Amos Gregson, together
with pen portraits Of their lives. 4 good
likeness Of Rev Jno f. CroWell, the new
ly elected President of Trinity College, also
adorns the paper. We have seen, in North
Carolina journalism no more gratifying
evidence of enterprise.
Bob. Burdette says:
After reading few thousand comments
on the Interstate Commerce bill from all
sections Of the country, we are firmly con-
yinced
That 1t will make freight rates higher;
That it will increase the price of passen-
ger tickets:
That it will abolish Communication tickets:
That it will call in all free passes;
That it will increase the running expen-
ses Of the railroads;
That it will bankrupt the Western farm
ers and shippers
That it will ruin the Eastern merchants;
That many railroads can't run at all un-
der it;
That all others will run at great loss;
And that nobody can afford to travel
under it.
We are therefore convinced that anar
| chy, chaos and the bill art coming along
| hand in hand, or rather we would be but
| for one thing g-we never knew bill Tor
the regulation of railroads that a blind
man coudn throw herd Of bulls through
Don't worry about the Inter State BILL
| the Comm issioners will get their salaries
all right and regular.
An extremely entertaining article, apro
/ DOS of the labor troubles, will be issued in
/ the April Harpers, entitled How Work
| ingmen Live IN Europe and America :
| The writer, Lee Meriwether, for a year
/ adopted the workman's blouse and mingled
! and lived with the laborers Of nearly every
| State in Europe from Gibraltar TO the Bos-
/ porus and from the Mediterranean to the
/ Baltic and then pursued the same practl-
cal study in this country Mr.. Merlwether
/ tells the habits of life, the wage and the
/ household economy of the various classes
Of workingmen in Italy, Switzerland, Ger
/ many, Belgium, France, England, and the
| United States. He relates how the Italian
| peanut aud fruit vendors enjoy their light
| occupations as the reward of years of self
denial at home, where they live on the re-
i fuse Of rich mems kitchens; how the Swiss
/ families flourish at watch making on small
wages; how the Germans spend twice as
much for beer as for rent, and yet an en-
tire family of seven lives on three hundred
| dollars a year; how the English operatives,
| receiving higher wages and better living
than their brothers on the Continent, are
| the most dissatisfied of European laborers;
how the mistaken ideas of our working
women lead them to prefer the over crowd
ed factory life, with its poor wages and
excessive strains, to the easier duties OF
domestic service, in which the demand faI
exceeds the supply; and how the Ameri-
can housewife wastes enough food to sup
port an entire family in Europe. Result
| ing from the experience Whlcn mas SlFeL
the wrtar his materials for this article
there has recently appeared from the same
pen a curious book entitled 'sHow to see
Europe on Fifty Gents Day"
RIII ARP on NEWSPAPERS.
We publish the following from the Per
of Bill Arp, not because it is new, for Bill
wrote it years ago, but because every
newspaper reader ought to read it once {
wear. 1t is good for all time. Bill says:
Some papers are not much account as t
appearance. but never took one that dldn'